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When Leon Leonwood Bean designed the first Maine Hunting Boot in 1912, he probably never envisioned his company would still be pushing the same classic footwear a century later. But that's just what L.L. Bean—based in Freeport, Maine—is doing with the 100th anniversary Bootmobile.

The Bootmobile is a 13-foot-tall, 20-foot-long Maine boot, sitting on the chassis of a 2012 Ford F-250. If it were an actual boot, it would be size 747. The person wearing it would be 143 feet tall, 32 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty.

To create the Bootmobile, L.L. Bean tapped Echo Artz, a company based in Kissimmee, Fla., that specializes in that sort of thing. Echo Artz president Zach Weikart and five other people put in about 2,500 hours of time on the project during seven weeks. The challenge, as Weikart explained, was keeping all of the elements of the Maine boot, including the L.L. Bean logo.

“We wanted to make sure it looked like an L.L. Bean boot and not a Ford boot,” Weikart said.

It started with making 3-D scans of the boot. Then, Echo Arts physically cut a boot in half and stuck it over a model of an F-250. To make it look symmetrical, workers used two halves of a left and right boot. If the company based the look off one or the other, according to Weikart, some of the truck would show through.

“The reaction was completely overwhelming,” said Weikart. “Just incredible. People were holding up their Bean boots taking pictures.

The purpose of the Bootmobile—besides to help sell more boots—is to remind people to get outdoors and enjoy nature.

The Bootmobile tour started in Times Square in January. It stopped near Fenway Park for opening day—Fenway is also celebrating its 100th anniversary—and was back in Maine for its hometown celebration on July 4. After the Bootmobile leaves the Pine Tree State it will go to Connecticut, back to Maine and finally back to Boston.